Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Micro – Platform APIs built for developers
Hey all, Just reposting after about a year since the last time I shared. Micro is a platform for API development. It combines a lot of the core primitives you'd expect from a cloud platform as a single logical server. The closest equivalent is Dapr.io. It bakes in the concept of environments, source to running builds and a framework for Go development. It's useful where you want to write backend services in Go and expose them through a single API (also included in Micro). We once wrote about "Netlify for the frontend, Micro for the backend"…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Micro – Platform APIs built for developers launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I can't tell if HN is the right kind of place for this stuff anymore since people are so advanced in their use but I thought it was interesting to leverage my existing Go microservices framework and turn it into the core of what would provide tools for an agent cli or whatever beyond that. Extensibility is key. Thought I'd share and get a conversation going.
2020 · go-micro.dev · its alternatives →
- 3MA
2021 · m3o.com · its alternatives →
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Hi all, I wanted to reshare this after some time. I've been working on evolving my service framework into an agent harness. As all of this AI tooling has evolved its become clear to me that agents, services and workflows are part of a core system of operations which would benefit from a single framework. Previously Go Micro only enabled service development. But now it includes Agents and Workflows. What does that mean? Well firstly services which are registered in a central registry automatically become tools for agents. The service endpoints individually become callable tools via MCP.…
2019 · go.micro.mu · its alternatives →
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A Go agent harness and service framework. Contribute to micro/go-micro development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Diagrid Catalyst▲218The fastest way to write reliable and portable microservices
2024 · diagrid.io · its alternatives →
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- 9SM
2016 · blog.leveros.com · its alternatives →
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Build modular easily testable microservice & serverless apps
2019 · micronaut.io · its alternatives →
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I'm relatively new to Go, but recently got interested in how MCP servers work. I started thinking about what the architecture of such a project might look like, and decided to build a minimalist version as an experiment. I based it on my past experience writing regular REST API servers and figured it might be useful or interesting to others as well.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! During the last few years, I worked on a few applications built with Go, running on AWS Lambda. As I got to know the platform better, I started to find Go & Lambda to be a really productive combination. The applications were fast, and they ended up being much cheaper to run than what my team & I had built before. It’s probably not the best platform for _every_ application, but I was surprised at how much of our workload worked well on it. As we brought new engineers on to our team and helped them get up to speed with the stack, I found that we were covering a lot of the same topics…
2021 · its alternatives →
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Quickly build microservices using p2p networking in NodeJS/Go. - lithdew/flatend
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Go compiler for small places. Microcontrollers, WebAssembly (WASM/WASI), and command-line tools. Based on LLVM. - tinygo-org/tinygo
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Monoliths and microservices
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! We’re Yann, Edouard, and Bastien from Koyeb (https://www.koyeb.com/). We’re building a platform to let you deploy full-stack apps on high-performance hardware around the world, with zero configuration. We provide a “global serverless feeling”, without the hassle of re-writing all your apps or managing k8s complexity [1]. We built Scaleway, a cloud service provider where we designed ARM servers and provided them as cloud servers. During our time there, we saw customers struggle with the same issues while trying to deploy full-stack applications and APIs resiliently. As…
2023 · koyeb.com · its alternatives →
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A cloud-native Go microservices framework with cli tool for productivity. - zeromicro/go-zero
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey all Sharing a new piece of work I've been doing with a friend. Mu is a new micro web app platform which enables building and sharing apps instantly with storage, auth and payments built in. Apps are single file, built in the browser and rendered as an iframe. They're "micro" because they're quite literally tiny single purpose utilities like a hackernews reader or old school guest book. It's mostly at this point something that scratches a personal itch. Making app development super simple and lightweight. Sort of like living GitHub gists. And trying to build a simpler, cleaner place to…
2023 · mu.app · its alternatives →
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2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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a minimalist toolkit for building scalable, fault tolerant and eventually-consistent microservices - dot-microservices/dot-rest
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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